Burning a CD

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I am trying to copy files from a bought CD onto my Desktop PC and then burn those same files onto a blank CD (I only have one CD/DVD drive).

I have copied (I think) or read the files from the bought CD into their own folder on my Desktop using ImgBurn. The files in this folder have a strange file name and I am not sure if, again using ImgBurn, they will actually burn onto a blank CD. The files in the folder look like this (attached).

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Now, you did use Read mode to create that BIN file, right? I mean, you have an audio CD you're trying to copy? In other words, just asking on the incredibly off chance you had a data CD that just happened to have the files format of an audio CD you read to an image file set in ImgBurn on the disc itself that you copied over. Most likely not. It seems you, most likely, read an audio CD using ImgBurn's Read function.

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I would have thought ImgBurn would let you burn the CD-Audio image to a writable DVD, but warn you you're underburning, e.g. using the wrong media. I would have thought it should still would have allowed you to do it.

I believe I tried writing a CD-Audio image to a BD-RE once because it was faster and I just needed to test playing it in Windows, not on a CD player. And that wouldn't work.

Oh, wait, maybe that was .CUE files created from containers that wouldn't burn to BD-RE.

Anyway, yeah, if you want a CD that plays in an audio CD player, you'll need CD-R/RW. And your CD player has to support CD-R and RW and support the particular brand you're using.

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Maybe BIN/CUE can only be written to CD-R/RW. I know the Create CUE File function can only burn to those media. Doesn't even write to an image file. I don't use BIN/CUE as I have ImgBurn set to create .CCD files, which saves the BIN as a .IMG file.

Standalone CD/DVD players generally check the type of media you've inserted to determine what to play. So, it won't play audio CD, generally, unless you insert a CD media. Thus, you'll want a CD-R/RW for this instance. Of course, the player has to support those functions/media and play nice with the media manufacturer you've burned to.